Reading Poetry Quotes

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.